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Pinned reviews

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  Refractions 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 01 Jan 2022 1

  I’ve posted before about the Discord server I made to bring together filmmaking-minded folks from this website. It remains a point of pride of mine, even as I’ve been largely absent from it and have relinquished server ownership to my trusted compatriot Vogels. I’m extremely happy he’s in control, as his motivation is inspiring and infectious. He is now running a new separate Letterboxd account for our Discord server, and actually spearheaded the assembly of this short film anthology I’m reviewing…

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  Story War 2013

  ★★★½ Rewatched 06 Nov 2020

  I'm well aware that simply having 1000 listed movies on my Letterboxd profile doesn't exactly mean that I've seen 1000 feature-length films (the irony that this, my 1000th movie log and 400th review log, falls on a 7-minute short film, is not lost on me). But I did think that this milestone could be a good time for me to interrogate my love of movies (and finally start paying for a Pro membership).

  This actually isn't my first Letterboxd account.…

Recent reviews

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  LUZ 2025

  ★★★ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  Starts off visually strong, but the plot never really coheres into anything compelling. Ultimately goes in one eyeball and out the other.

  Sundance Film Festival 2025 #6

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  By Design 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  Sublime; Amanda Kramer is tapped into a psychic-feminist netherworld here, skewering all senses of the word ‘belonging’ at once.

  Sundance Film Festival 2025 #5

Popular reviews

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  A Dog's Will 2000

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Mar 2020 10

  - “I know I’m poor.”
  - “I don’t care about that, Chicó! But if you at least had a degree!”
  - “I’m a PhD in hidden sciences, dramatic philosophy, dogmatic biology, charlatanic perversion, electronic astrology.”

  the first half of this film is a slapstick masterpiece, like an adult, live-action version of Looney Tunes or Emperor’s New Groove with religious undertones. the entire cast is colorful, magnetic, and impossible to hate, and familiar tropes are turned on their head brilliantly. and THEN the religious undertones…

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  I'm Thinking of Ending Things 2020

  ★½ Watched 06 Sep 2020

  Whose idea was it to call this a thriller? There’s not a single thrill to be found here — instead, get ready for Charlie Kaufman bitching about how much everyone and everything sucks in spades, plus a constant barrage of quasi-highbrow cinematic and literary references. Like buying a ticket to a rollercoaster only to find out it stays flat on the ground and goes straight ahead at five miles an hour; a legendary disappointment.